Faculty: Department of Counseling, Human Development and Family Science | Department of Counseling, Human Development and Family Science | The University of Vermont(title)

Advancing the science and professional practice of critically conscious human services and counseling professionals. View our faculty profiles to learn more about our nationally and internationally recognized teaching, research, and service.

Faculty Profiles

Nicole Conroy

Nicole Conroy

Associate Professor of Human Development and Family Science

nicole.conroy@uvm.edu

  • Power, control, and intimate partner violence
  • Gender and intimate partner violence
  • Sexual coercion, violence, and consent
  • Human development and identity

Anna Elliott

Anna Elliott

Associate Professor of Counseling • Counseling Program Coordinator

anna.h.elliott@uvm.edu

  • Rural Mental Health
  • Family Counseling
  • Trauma Healing
  • Clinical Supervision
  • Relational Cultural Counseling

Robin Hausheer

Robin Hausheer

Associate Professor of Counseling • School Counseling Track Lead and CACREP Liaison

Robin.Hausheer@uvm.edu

  • Underage drinking prevention
  • Parent/Guardian underage drinking prevention programming
  • School counseling program evaluation
  • Impact of implicit bias in counseling and education

Aishwarya Joshi

Aishwarya P. Joshi

Assistant Professor of Counseling

Aishwarya.Joshi@uvm.edu

  • Clinical Mental Health
  • Intersectionality
  • Multicultural, Social Justice and Equity Competencies
  • Crisis and Trauma

Camelia Maianu

Camelia Măianu

Senior Lecturer and Program Coordinator of Human Development and Family Science

Camelia.Maianu@uvm.edu

  • Child Development
  • Lifespan Development Psychology
  • Psychology of Adolescence

Jane Okech

Jane E. Okech

Vice Provost for Faculty Affairs • Professor of Counselor Education and Supervision

Jane.Okech@uvm.edu

  • Clinical supervision
  • Diversity, access and equity
  • Ethics
  • Group co-leadership
  • Group psychotherapy
  • Mental health
  • Multiculturalism
  • Social justice

Christine Proulx

Christine Proulx

Professor of Human Development and Family Science • Chair, Department of Counseling and Human Development and Family Science

christine.proulx@uvm.edu

  • Intimate relationships
  • Caregiving
  • Aging
  • Health
  • Dyadic methodologies

Lance Smith

Lance Smith

Associate Professor of Counseling

Lance.Smith@uvm.edu

  • Diversity, Equity and Inclusion
  • Critical Consciousness
  • Youth Participatory Action Research (YPAR)
  • Restorative Practices

Sherwood Smith

Sherwood Smith

Senior Executive Director of Inclusive Excellence and Faculty Engagement • Lecturer of Human Development and Family Science

Sherwood.Smith@uvm.edu

  • Multicultural Education
  • Development of Prejudice
  • Cross Cultural / Intercultural Development
  • White Identity Development
  • Intersections of domestic and international issues of ethnicity, race and gender

Nancy Thacker Darrow

Nancy Thacker Darrow

Assistant Professor of Counseling • Program Coordinator of PhD in Counselor Education and Supervision

nancy.thacker@uvm.edu

  • Culturally-informed grief theory and counseling, non-death losses
  • LGBTQ+ mental health and development
  • Social justice and equity in education and counseling
  • Qualitative research and critical methodologies

Jacqueline Weinstock

Jacqueline Weinstock

Associate Professor of Human Development and Family Science

Jacqueline.Weinstock@uvm.edu

  • Adult development and aging
  • Friendships
  • Sexual and gender identities

Julie Ann Welkowitz

Julie Ann Welkowitz

Senior Lecturer of Counseling • Field Placement Coordinator

Julie.Welkowitz@uvm.edu

  • Clinical and systems consultation
  • Model development within schools to support youth with emotional and behavioral challenges
  • Narrative practices clinical supervision systems change initiatives